2016 HONICKMAN BOOK PRIZE WINNER ANNOUNCED
Heather Tone, Likenesses
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"It's almost impossible to explain why the playfulness of Heather Tone's Likenesses produces such delight... Freedom, light, leggerezza, speed, and depth.
Crystal abyss, 'nothing,' a touch of kabala. Perfect projections of shades between death and life, a scent of Eden. Like four-year-old boys throwing clumps
of mud at each other, bursting into happy laughter. These lines scream with joy."
—Boston Review
When he is dead, a man in a
bathing suit looks most like a little boy.
A woman in a bathing suit
looks like a woman, unless she is quite
thin, in which case she looks like a little boy.
A little girl in a sundress looks like a little boy
in a sundress. Her mouth is a cold oval, as cold
as a strawberry. When dead, a robin red-breast
looks like a little girl, while it goes without
saying that Robin Hood looks like a boy...
Heather Tone's poetry has appeared in The Boston Review, The Colorado Review, Fence, and other journals. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she currently lives in Florida.